Black Seed was becoming a voice in, and for, indigenous anarchism, from a perspective that is different from, and definitely in dialog with, more traditional indigeneity, and more traditional anarchist thinking. Urban, nihilist, green, brown, black, mixed, liminal, antipolitical, anti-anthropological, rejecting both the perspective that ancient peoples had all the answers and certainly that anyone now has... or even that all the answers would be possible or desirable.

The contributors to this volume express a troubling of both traditions, reflect on what it means to use names imposed from other places on ideas and practices that have existed forever, as well as the manipulation of definitions that claim to empower us but ultimately serve our enemies. The young label "indigenous anarchism" is already at risk of reification and subsumption in a political, academic, identitarian landscape that irons out everything spiky and relevant about it, and further invisibilizes the people who are featured here, and those who we hope to hear from in the future (you know who you are). So this volume is also to recognize the direction Black Seed was taking, and to say that those conversations are still happening, and we take a stand in that fight, to keep indigenous anarchy as something that is not containable by definitions, something not on any map.

A reluctant history of Indigenous Anarchism, telephoned-in:
It is written in barely-legible spray paint. It is Indigenous urban youth raised in punk scenes. It was fed a steady diet of zines and food, not bombs. It sat through endless study groups and occasionally volunteered at infoshops. It sewed patches with dental floss. It drank itself to death. It played yoyo. It said "fuck you and your white dreadlock-wearing banjo-playing dogma.” It wore nihilism on its sleeve. It played with Stir n er. It laughed at Marxists. It stole enough to satisfy youthful reparations. It dumpster dived. It locked down and got arrested. It fought cops and neo-Nazis. It wrote a regretable letter to Kaczynski. It painted banners. It overstayed its welcome. It rabidly celebrated autonomy while dreaming dreams of ancestors. It didn’t work. It talked about consensus and debated voting. It organized benefit concerts. It laughed at the folly of dismissive white anarchists who thought their lame critiques of nationalism could be imposed on Indigenous life ways. It dropped out. It slept on couches and under bridges. It hitchhiked across Turtle Island. It didn’t name itself. It didn’t need to.

Contents:
Introduction: Indigenous Anarchism is a Collect Call by Klee Benally
The Coming, On-Going Fight by some Black Seed editors
ONE
Locating an Indigenous Anarchism by Aragorn Moser
A Non-European Anarchism by Aragorn Moser
Black Kitty Conspiracy gor Another World: Deconstructing Anarchism, Settler Colonization & Anti-Blackness by Edxi Betts
Unknowable: Against an Indigenous Anarchist Theory by Klee Benally
TWO
Welcome to Black Seed Issue 1: A Contribution to the Continuing Green Anarchist Conversation . . .
Black Seed-An Old Green Anarchy by Aragorn Moser
Without Words: A New (Old) GA by Aragorn Moser
Editorial Issue 7
Answers to Questions Not Asked: Anarchists & Anthropology by Aragorn Moser
Nihilist Animism by Aragorn Moser
Do Ants Dream of Domestication: A Review of Corrosive Consciousness by Aragorn Moser
THREE
The Erotic Life of Stones by Dominique Ganawaabi and Soren Aubade
Speech of the Nameless by Dominique Ganawaabi and Soren Aubade
"There's No Place to Go": An Interview with Dominique
Post-Indian Aphorisms by Dominique Ganawaabi
FOUR
There's A Twitter for That?! by Aragorn Moser
Whatever-Veganism: A Mild Critique by Aragorn Moser
Voting Isn't Harm Reduction by Klee Benally
By All Means, Anti-Politics by Mike Gouldhawke (Métis & Cree, Treaty 6 territory)
FIVE
Indigenous Anarchist Convergence Reportback 1 by Klee Benally
Fire Walk with Me: IAC Reportback 2 by anonymous
Rethinking the Apocalypse: An Indigenous Anti-Futurist Manifesto by anonymous
Stand-up to be Performed at the Next Disaster by Skoden

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